events, news, announcements

2021

Fri 17/Sat 18 Dec: Össznyelvész 2021, conference in linguistics organized by BRaCeLeT/NYEKK

Thu 2 Dec: Zsófia Bán receives the Füst Milán Prize for Prose. Congratulations to our colleague!

Tue 23 Nov, 18:00: Work In Progress Special (in Hungarian ): About Anne Sexton‘s poetry — recently translated into Hungarian; a conversation with the translators of the poems

Tue 9 Nov, 18:00: book première: Natália Pikli, Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture; introduced by Eglantina Remport, hosted by Zsolt Komáromy; in D126 (1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4)

Wed 3 Nov, 17:00–18:30: the first meeting of the Budapest Metaphor Circle: Zoltán Kövecses, Anger in a New Light (followed by an informal discussion) in Kari Tanácsterem, Building A (1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4)

Sun 19 Sep: Zsófia Bán is awarded the Spycher: Literaturpreis Leuk. Congratulations to our colleague!

Sat 24 Jul: Megtörtént. Minden szó igaz, a book by our late colleague, Judit Zerkowitz

Fri 4 Jun, 9:00–16:00: First Doctoral Research Conference of the Modern English and American Literature and Culture Doctoral Program (on Facebook)

Mon 19–Fri 23 Apr: Infosztrájk: getting informed about and discussing academic freedom

Wed 17 March, 16:00: A gótika kikel sírjából by EASPop (English and American Studies Popular Culture Research Group)

Tue 27–Wed 28 Oct: 1st English and American Popular Culture Conference (Encounters of the Popular Kind: Traditions and Mythologies in Dialogue

Tue 13 Oct, 14:00–16:00: The Department of English Applied Linguistics of Eötvös Loránd University invites all who are interested to the on-line closing event of the Erasmus+ project entitled “Language Skills of Deaf Students for European Mobility” carried out in collaboration with Czech, Austrian, and British participants. The program includes the introduction of the project and the presentation of the research findings of the Hungarian team. This will be followed by the experience reports of Deaf participants about their process of learning English and the project outputs they participated in. The event is going to conclude with a question and answer session. Venue: MSTeams, register at wein.kata@btk.elte.hu. Sign language interpretation will be provided. All are welcome!

Fri 9 Oct, 17:00–18:30: FORDÍTSUNK! – Mesterek hibái – modern versfordítások angolból, Nádasdy Ádám és Horváth Viktor műhelybeszélgetése, Magvető Café, VII. Dohány utca 13; a Fókusz Könyváruházon (Rákóczi út 14) át egy kis folyosón keresztül is megközelíthető

Tue 29 Sep, 18:00–20:00: Shakespeare-ünnep (on Facebook), Magyar Shakespeare Bizottság, Dobos Dániel és zenekara, Nádasdy Ádám, Szőnyi György Endre, Dicső Dániel, Schiller Mariann, Reuss Gabriella; D nagyelőadó

Tue 22 Sep, 16:00: ELTE BTK trade union (PDSZ) on a solidarity walk out to SZFE (pic)

Wed 3 Jun: Our colleague Judit Zerkowitz passed away this morning, aged 74. Requiescat in pace.

Wed 22 Apr: Ádám Nádasdy wins the Aegon Literary Award 2020. Congratulations to our colleague!

Thu 6 Feb, 15:00: Tibor Frank, A polgári érintkezés modernizálódása a 19. században. An inaugural lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA, Felolvasóterem, 1051 Budapest, Szécsenyi István tér 9)

Wed 18 Dec: referee’s reports are available in department offices, get it, look at it before the defence

Thu 28–Fri 29 Nov: conference on Margaret Atwood 80: Central European Interpretations

Fri 15 Nov: Győző Ferencz has received the József Ürményi Award in recognition of his excellence in teaching, Zsuzsanna Kutasi has received the Ferenc Barkóczy Award for her outstanding work as a librarian (pictures). Congratulations to both colleagues for their achievement!